Angel Rene Del Valle Echevarria

Angel holds a BSc in Biology from the Universidad de Puerto Rico–Mayagüez and a Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has dedicated most of his career to fundamental and applied plant biotechnology research, focusing on enhancing crop productivity, adding value traits, and developing R&D pipelines. Before joining Deep Science Ventures (DSV), Angel was the Project Leader in Plant Molecular Genetics at the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center (HARC), leading the gene-editing research and development pipeline for tropical crops, and a research faculty at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, researching the molecular networks driving plant growth and development. He is an Associate in Agriculture at DSV, creating ventures in deep-agri tech centered on achieving sustainable agriculture and ecosystem services outcomes.